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"Mr President, I would like to reassure Mr Cohn-Bendit that we understand what it takes not to have a budget. Contrary to what many people may think, the ECR Group would be delighted to see an agreement between the two arms of the budgetary authority. We feel that it is a shame not to have a budget after all these arduous conciliation talks, because the 500 million taxpayers in Europe do not understand why these two distinguished arms of the budgetary authority cannot reach an agreement in the Lisbon Treaty’s very first year of application.
I think the responsibility lies with both sides. Parliament does not have to force governments to enter into political commitments that they are unfortunately unable or – for whatever reason – unwilling to make at this point in the midst of a crisis. Nor does Parliament have to enforce these commitments over a longer period of time.
On the other hand, I can also say that the Council has its fair share of responsibility, because a week ago, when we were negotiating in the conciliation, not a single ambassador bothered to make any statement explaining the views of his or her own government. Therefore, it was a kind of dialogue between two sides which were not even stating their own proposals.
The Commission is preparing a new draft based on the 2.91% growth figure. At this point, I should like to acknowledge and express my appreciation for the tremendous work Commissioner Lewandowski is doing in that respect. We can reach a compromise if we can agree to use flexibility – which is not a good use of terminology, by the way, because we should be using ‘reserve’ – as part of the interinstitutional agreement for the remaining three years to finance ITER and a few other key projects.
At the same time, Parliament could decide not to force any political declaration on the Council which is unacceptable to several key governments at this time. That is how we can reach a compromise. I think Mr Wathelet is working very hard on this. I can only encourage you to pursue this, Mr Wathelet, because it will be an even bigger shame if we cannot reach an agreement before the end of this year."@en1
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